CVE-2012-5660

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-03-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

abrt-action-install-debuginfo in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) 2.0.9 and earlier allows local users to set world-writable permissions for arbitrary files and possibly gain privileges via a symlink attack on "the directories used to store information about crashes."

Affected products

RedHat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool: through 2.0.9; 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.4.980 (+5)

References

http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/libreport.git/commit/?id=3bbf961b1884dd32654dd39b360dd78ef294b10a
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0215.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887866
http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/libreport.git/commit/?id=3bbf961b1884dd32654dd39b360dd78ef294b10a
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0215.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887866

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